PoetryFilm at Laugharne Castle, June 6-8, 2014

Taking place within the ‘timeless, beautiful’ setting of Laugharne Castle in southern Carmarthenshire, the Laugharne Castle Poetry and FilmFestival will unfold over the long weekend of Friday 6 June – Sunday 8 June 2014.

Marking the centenary year of Dylan Thomas’s birth, our exciting and innovative festival programme will include:

A special outdoor screening of the 1972 film Under Milk Wood, starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor – presented by Chapter Arts Centre within the atmospheric castle walls

An introduction and Q&A session with the film’s director Andrew Sinclair

NEW programmes of the best selected contemporary poetry and film from around the UK

A stop-motion animation workshop for young people

Printmaking workshop

Poetry readings and talks

During the lead-in to the event, we have also involved three schools in a poetry project based on Thomas’s ‘Poem from October’, working to produce a new series of digital media projections that will be shown during the festival.